The Green Store Challenge - The DO School and H&M

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THE DO SCHOOL AND THE DO SCHOOL PROGRAM
The DO School is an innovative educational institution offering training, mentoring, and education to outstanding emerging social entrepreneurs to kickstart their own ventures all around the world.
The DO School offers a unique one-year educational program enabling talented emerging social entrepreneurs to launch their own innovative and sustainable ventures. The program allows its participants - our Fellows - to learn from passionate peers, engage with current leaders and experts, and create change by implementing their social start-ups in their home countries. The year long program takes place in two phases, the ten-week Incubation Phase on our Hamburg campus and the ten-month Implementation Phase in the Fellows' home countries. During the Incubation Phase Fellows solve a group Challenge in order to learn hands-on how to act entrepreneurially and successfully take action.
THE CHALLENGE
H&M challenges the DO School Fellows to create a Green Store prototype. This Green Store prototype must be sustainable in terms of materials, construction, energy, operation and other aspects and will be realized in Germany. The prototype should be scalable to H&M stores worldwide, be economically beneficial and make the idea of sustainability tangible for customers and employees.
DATES
Incubation Phase, DO School campus in Hamburg, Germany: End of April 2014 to June 2014.
Implementation Phase, in the Fellows’ home countries: June 2014 to April 2015.
POTENTIAL FOR IMPACT
Consumption is relevant to almost everyone in the world. If done carelessly, it can irreversibly harm the environment. Discovering how to make our consumption more sustainable will be crucial to the health of the planet and future generations. Retail stores are places of large responsibilities, both for customers and retailers. The Green Store prototype will set an example of sustainability in-store and help to communicate the issue to customers and employees in stores. This will also help to create more conscious consumers worldwide and boost the innovation of a multinational company.
ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS
The DO School invites applications from emerging social entrepreneurs aged 18 to 28 from around the world, with relevant interests and skills. A maximum of 20 Fellows will be selected for the H&M Green Store Challenge and successful candidates may come from, but are not restricted to the fields of engineering, architecture, fashion and design, as well as environmental activism, retail and human resource management.
HOW TO APPLY
To learn more about the DO School and the Green Store Challenge, and to apply please visit our website at: http://thedoschool.org/challenges/green-store-challenge/
The deadline for applications to the Green Store Challenge is January 7th, 2014.

SUBJECTS

Design

Environmental Studies

Management

RELATED PROGRAMS

Are you an aspiring impact entrepreneur?
Join our Entrepreneurship for Good Program in Berlin and learn hands-on what it takes to be an entrepreneur by working on a real life group Challenge posed by H&M - the Future of Work Challenge.
This Challenge invites you and 19 other young entrepreneurs to spend 10 weeks on campus in Berlin to devise innovative ways for employees of big companies to set targets for themselves and to measure their actual impact.
In particular, you will be asked to:
- Identify new areas in big companies that aren’t already covered by employee satisfaction surveys
- Create an amazing solution that is easily scalable and transferable, i.e. to other companies
- Empower individual and structural change by making its effect measurable
By working on the Challenge, you will learn our DO School Method which will teach you the skills and methods necessary to turn your own ideas into action and develop your personal venture plan with the support of experienced coaches.
After that, you’ll move on to implement your own venture over the course of the next 10 months in your home country, supported by the DO School via an online learning platform, regular coaching sessions and last but not least a widespread alumni network.